Furchtbar lustig. Musik in Horrorkomödien
- Submitting institution
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University of Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 148215848
- Type
- C - Chapter in book
- DOI
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- Book title
- Musik in der Filmkomödie
- Publisher
- edition text + kritik
- ISBN
- 9783869165059
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Study of music in horror comedies. Uses ideas from genre theory and theories of humour, and establishes the complex interaction of oppositions and parallels between the horror and the comedy sides of such films, and then charts four typical features of music in horror comedies across examples from 20 films from US, Canada, Britain, Japan and Norway: (i) the technique of the 'Lewton bus'; (ii) the indicátion of horror behind a harmless facade; (iii) incongruity as a steady state across longer stretches of films; (iv) the implication that the true horror of a situation lies in something ostensibly harmless.